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FREEDOM (while hoping my friends stay safe)

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Published: January 11, 2026 22:08

This deserves to become one of the iconic images of human history, alongside the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square and so forth. Hereā€™s Sharifi Zarchi, a computer engineering professor at Sharif University in Tehran, posting on Twitter/X: ā€œAli Khamenei isā€¦

The Goodness Cluster

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Published: January 8, 2026 02:16

The blog-commenters come at me one by one, a seemingly infinite supply of them, like masked henchmen in an action movie throwing karate chops at Jackie Chan. ā€œSeriously Scott, do better,ā€ says each henchman when his turn comes, ignoring all the onesā€¦

Venezuela through the lens of good and evil

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Published: January 4, 2026 18:13

I woke up yesterday morning happy and relieved that the Venezuelan people were finally free of their brutal dictator. I ended the day angry and depressed that Trump, as it turns out, does not seek to turn over Venezuela to MarĆ­a Corina Machado and herā€¦

My Christmas gift: telling you about PurpleMind, which brings CS theory to the YouTube masses

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Published: December 25, 2025 05:40

Merry Christmas, everyone! Ho3! Hereā€™s my beloved daughter baking chocolate chip cookies, which sheā€™ll deliver tomorrow morning with our synagogue to firemen, EMTs, and others who need to work on Christmas Day. My role was limited to taste-testing. ā€¦

More on whether useful quantum computing is "imminentā€

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Published: December 21, 2025 17:34

These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasnā€™t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is imminent. Why have you reversed yourself?? I appreciated theā€¦

Understanding vs. impact: the paradox of how to spend my time

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Published: December 11, 2025 17:49

Not long ago William MacAskill, the founder of the Effective Altruist movement, visited Austin, where I got to talk with him in person for the first time. I was a fan of his book What We Owe the Future, and found him as thoughtful and eloquent face-to-faceā€¦

Theory and AI Alignment

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Published: December 7, 2025 05:28

The following is based on a talk that I gave (remotely) at the UK AI Safety Institute Alignment Workshop on October 29, and which I then procrastinated for more than a month in writing up. Enjoy! Thanks for having me! Iā€™m a theoretical computerā€¦

Mihai Pătrașcu Best Paper Award: Guest post from Seth Pettie

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Published: November 30, 2025 22:25

Scottā€™s foreword: Today Iā€™m honored to turn over Shtetl-Optimized to a guest post from Michigan theoretical computer scientist Seth Pettie, who writes about a SOSA Best Paper Award newly renamed in honor of the late Mihai Pătrașcu. Mihai, who I knew fromā€¦